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Those Jellyfish All Over The Cove? Baby Moon Jellys

Greenwich Cove has been inundated by moon jellyfish this spring.


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If you are walking along the shore of Greenwich Cove and happen to look, really look, at the water, you'll notice first one, then two or three, then dozens and dozens of jellyfish floating by. 

These baby moon jellyfish. Moon jellys are fun to watch move through the water. You can watch them in the short video attached, or head down to the cove to see for yourself! 

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Moon jellyfish are but one type of jellyfish to enhabit Narragansett Bay. Come summer, a phosphorescent type of "comb jellyfish" often enters the cove – they glow at night. Imagine hundreds of nightlights just under the surface of the water. 

As Tom Kutcher, Save the Bay's Narragansett Baykeeper, said, "It is pretty cool!"

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